Best week of summer or another post with a zillion photos.

Saturday, August 18 began our week long summer vacation. We had gone to the beach and/or Beaufort several times this summer but hadn't had the opportunity to go for a whole week until then. IT. WAS. GLORIOUS. We began the "week" at home. We didn't actually leave for vacation until Sunday...but we made that Saturday vacation as well...by taking advantage of my mom offering to babysit, we enjoyed a lake day with some friends and then came back and took Collins to the pool and cooked out with friends. We've been so busy with house stuff or other obligations it's hard to remember to take some time and just enjoy our new surroundings. So, that's what we did that day. Enjoyed the heck out of the lake and pool ALL DAY LONG.

Then, Sunday came and it was time to head to Beaufort. I could not have been more excited to have the week to spend with JUST MY GIRL AND HER DADDY. It was heaven. Was the weather great? NOPE. Did I care? NOPE. A year ago, it would have driven me NUTS that it wasn't sunny every day...but this year that was my least concern. Yeah, it would have been nice to get a little more sun...but what was even nicer? Sleeping in...spending ALL day long with our girl...napping when she napped...the little things in life you tend to miss out on during the normal go,go,go of our busy schedules. We took a day trip to Charleston, we went to the park, the beach, and the pool; but most of all we just enjoyed loving on Collins every day, all day.

Riding around downtown Beaufort.

First time seeing daddy's school.

Beach bum. (Side note, I'm really irritated about that AWFUL ugly Clemson cooler being in all of our pictures...we forgot our cooler and had to use what was at the house. Crazy Clemson family members!)

Playing in the water.

Tasting the sand.

First time sitting in the big highchair. This was my dad and his siblings high chair from growing up, we now keep at Beaufort.

Lunch date at daddy's FAVORITE place in the world. MOE's in Charleston, and no...not "welcome to moe's" Moe's.

Pool day Saturday at our neighborhood pool.

Swinging in the park.

Right before she started crawling. Practicing.

Happy little girl.

Pool day.

Dinner on the water.

She looks so grown up here!

Loves her toys.

But, that's not where the BEST week of summer ends. Friday afternoon, my parents arrived in Beaufort (to keep our munchkin) and Mikey and I headed off on our separate ways...he to "boys weekend/fantasy football draft party" and me to girls beach weekend. If that's not the best of both worlds, I don't know what is! A full week with my loves and then a weekend of AMAZING girl time.

All of us girls gathered at a friends beach house in Garden City for the weekend and it was quite simply, the best girls weekend EVER. I don't know why, it just was. Maybe because we are all getting a little older now and there was ZERO drama (you know how 20 something girls can be when you are together for a whole weekend and there is alcohol involved...or is that only my group of friends?!?) or the fact that we literally LAUGHED until we CRIED. As you can see from the pictures (the only ones we took ALL weekend!) it was LAID back and casual. We had no agenda, no plans, no nothing. It was absolutely perfect. *and it was absolutely beautiful all day Saturday so I did end up getting sun, yay!*